Melissa E. Feldman

Melissa E. Feldman is an independent curator currently based in Harrisburg, PA. She specializes in novel curatorial approaches, the geo-cultural context of art, and identifying emergent or underrecognized artistic trends. Recent traveling exhibitions include Seriously? Comedy and Satire in Canadian Art 1970s to Now organized by Griffin Art Projects, Vancouver, B.C. (2025-26); Indie Folk: New Art and Sounds from the Pacific Northwest organized by the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, Pullman, WA (2022-25); Push Play, Independent Curators International (2013-17); and Another Minimalism: Art After California Light and Space, The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh (2015-16). An essayist and contributor to Art in America, Canadian Art, Third Text, and Frieze among others, Feldman has taught at the California College of Art, the San Francisco Art Institute, Cornish College of the Arts, and Goldsmith's College, London, where she was based for five years. She is credited with organizing the first monographic exhibitions for artists such as Karen Kilimnik, Martin Kippenberger, Beverly Semmes, and Hiroshi Sugimoto as a curator at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, in the 1990s. Feldman holds an M.A. from the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University.